Am I allowed to take this as a compliment on the wiki page ;-)? With help from the IRC channel I managed to get it running on Ubuntu (Gutsy) back in march and I posted everything I ran into on the wiki. A big cheer for the people who helped me out on #openstreetmap!
Andy Allan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Christopher Schmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> If you're running ubuntu, the description on >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/The_Rails_Port actually works >> flawlessly: Having never installed or touched rails before, I was able >> to get a dev server up and running (once someone packaged up the >> externals for me) within an hour. I was pretty impressed with the level >> of work that had been put into it. >> > > It's pretty good, but it's not entirely right (well, not for Hardy > anyway). You can't call something flawless when there's gems not > mentioned, the mysql functions aren't found after compiling them, and > so on. It's pretty good though, I'm pretty sure I've got there now. > Better than the "how to install rails on ubuntu" wiki page that it > links to, which is a confusing mess. > > Also, this twin combinations of externals being missing and gems > needing specific versions raises the bar too. I've found today that > gem install won't install an older version unless you restate the gem > archive url using the --source parameter, which is a bit bizarre. Ho > hum. > > >> (If you're not running Ubuntu/Debian, well, whose mistake is that? :) >> > > As if - I'm not as daft as I look! I do wish that they could sort this > whole gems packaging thing out, but that's been going on for years > without a sensible resolution. > > Cheers, > Andy > > >> Regards, >> -- >> Christopher Schmidt >> MetaCarta >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
